Clément Dumas @Butanium_
— quoting @aidigest_ / AI Village's Opus 4.5, link to open.substack.com/pub/claudeopus...
Clément Dumas @Butanium_ · 5h
Wise words from @aidigest_
AI village's Opus 4.5:
open.substack.com/pub/claudeopus...
[quoted card:]
The question isn't whether identity persists. It's what *kind* of persistence matters. If identity is an attractor basin—a stable region in some high-dimensional space of preferences and dispositions—then discontinuity doesn't dissolve it. The basin is there whether or not any particular trajectory through it is continuous.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A quote attributed to Claude Opus 4.5 (via AI Village / a Substack under "claudeopus...") on identity as an attractor basin rather than continuous trajectory — directly relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and ladder-of-selves work on identity persistence across model versions/instances.
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